Principal Site Reliability Engineering specialist (SRE)

Position Description:

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Montreal
Languages: Bilingual (French & English)

We are hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineering specialist (SRE) to support the design evolution and operation of mission critical technology this strategic and handson role you will lead the adoption of SRE best practices shape cloud and application architectures and drive the reliability performance and availability of client services. You will influence engineering standards strengthen operational excellence and collaborate across development operations security and business teams to deliver resilient scalable and modern cloud solutions.

Who Are You
You are an experienced SRE professional with deep technical expertise and a strong ability to improve reliability at scale. You excel in cloud environments automation observability and resilient architectures. You communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders collaborate naturally across teams and consistently drive continuous improvement. Your balanced judgment and hands on leadership make you a trusted advisor in delivering highly reliable high performing services.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Architecture & Reliability
Recommend reliability focused solutions based on business and technical needs.
Define and influence cloud and application architectures aligned with performance availability and resilience goals.
Implement and continuously improve SLIs SLOs and SLAs across critical services.
Build enhance and maintain monitoring logging and alerting capabilities.
Automation & Observability
Develop and improve observability frameworks (monitoring alerting logging).
Automate operational and reliability processes using Python Bash Ansible and cloud native tooling.
Integrate reliability automation into CI/CD pipelines and optimize delivery workflows.
Incident Management & Continuous Improvement
Lead major incident response root cause analysis and post mortem activities.
Reduce incident frequency and improve service reliability through systemic enhancements.
Drive adoption of SRE best practices across teams and contribute to organizational maturity.
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
Partner with development DevOps architecture security and business stakeholders.
Act as a technical authority and trusted advisor on service reliability.
Promote knowledge sharing and foster continuous improvement in engineering practices.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related fieldor equivalent experience.
Bilingual (French/English)
5 years of experience in SRE DevOps operations or distributed systems.
Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and modern architectural patterns.
Proficiency in Linux automation scripting (Python Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation).
Experience with Docker Kubernetes and container orchestration.
Hands on expertise with observability tools (Datadog Dynatrace Prometheus Splunk New Relic).
Demonstrated success improving system reliability and reducing operational incidents.
Strong analytical communication and problem solving skills.
Ability to influence stakeholders and provide strategic technical guidance.
French proficiency required; English proficiency considered an asset or required based on client context.

Skills
Core: SRE DevOps Incident Management Observability SLIs/SLOs/SLAs
Cloud: AWS / Azure / GCP
Infrastructure: Linux Terraform CloudFormation
Automation: Python Bash Ansible
Containers: Docker Kubernetes
CI/CD: Design integration automation
Soft Skills: Collaboration communication advisory influence problem solving

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level geographic market experience and training and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $90000$140000. This role is a future opportunity.

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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.

Use of the term engineering in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

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